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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Record -> Array in Ada
Date: 1996/08/20
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Mike Roske wrote:
> What's the best way to split the record into 16-bit slices for
> transmission?
> 
> I have identified the following options:
> 
> 1) Unchecked_Conversion into a fixed size array.  (And if I do this, how
> do I get the array bounds set correctly?)
> 
> 2) Pass Record'Address and Record'Size into a subprogram.  Inside the
> subprogram, declare an array of the appropriate size, located at the
> appropriate address.  (have prototyped this one, and it works.)
> 
> 3) Ask in c.l.a for suggestions.  (hi there!)
> 

Why not do all three? :-)

Simply merge approaches 1 and 2 (and you are already doing 3). Set the array
type's size to be (Record'size + 7)/8 bytes.

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